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Utility Functions
Unbounded Utilities
Coherence Arguments
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Take 7: You should talk about "the human's utility function" less.
Charlie Steiner
12d
22
21
Will Values and Competition Decouple?
interstice
2mo
11
55
The Allais Paradox
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
145
38
Better impossibility result for unbounded utilities
paulfchristiano
10mo
24
29
The Doubling Box
Mestroyer
10y
84
50
I’m no longer sure that I buy dutch book arguments and this makes me skeptical of the "utility function" abstraction
Eli Tyre
1y
29
75
The Human's Hidden Utility Function (Maybe)
lukeprog
10y
90
27
Inferring utility functions from locally non-transitive preferences
Jan
10mo
15
99
Utility ≠ Reward
vlad_m
3y
25
50
Bayesian Utility: Representing Preference by Probability Measures
Vladimir_Nesov
13y
37
25
Allais Hack -- Transform Your Decisions!
MBlume
13y
19
57
Tendencies in reflective equilibrium
Scott Alexander
11y
70
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A summary of Savage's foundations for probability and utility.
Sniffnoy
11y
91
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Time and Effort Discounting
Scott Alexander
11y
32
75
Three ways that "Sufficiently optimized agents appear coherent" can be false
Wei_Dai
3y
3
80
The "Measuring Stick of Utility" Problem
johnswentworth
6mo
22
25
Deriving Conditional Expected Utility from Pareto-Efficient Decisions
Thomas Kwa
7mo
1
52
Coherent behaviour in the real world is an incoherent concept
Richard_Ngo
3y
17